World War II veteran John “Harry” Kellers beamed from his folding chair Sunday morning, underneath a shade tent in the ...

The 830 LCTs were deployed for landing troops and tanks but others were converted to carry guns and rockets to be fired in support of soldiers.

Scores of young soldiers, many of them barely out of high school, died instantly after German machine gun fire mowed them down during the first wave of landings. Of the survivors from the D-Day ...

Landing craft 92 had left the English Channel port of ... very heavy rifle and machine gun fire,” Coast Guard Lt ... when it struck a mine off Normandy on its way to Omaha Beach on D-Day.

A vital component in the success of the D-Day landings were the landing craft which carried the tanks and heavy guns across the Channel to back up the thousands of soldiers as they descended on the ...

Andrew Whitmarsh, curator of the D-Day Story museum in Portsmouth, Hampshire, told the PA news agency: “LCTs played a vital role – there were over 4,000 landing craft and landing ships ...